Actually iirc the Onion bid was lower, but would spread the reward more equitably to the victims. The victims wanted it. The company doing the liquidation wanted it, the judge wanted it, but the appeal judge blocked it.
Lol, Today Stamets woke up and chose violence.
PTB
Classic Comparative optimism bias. 'this only happens to other people"
I have no clue tbh. I haven't set anything up. You can try using liberapay instead maybe?
That phrasing is kinda racist, yo
I'm not close to burnout but thanks for the concern. I don't run my instance like lemm.ee does for a reason ;)
Unfortunately that philosophy led them to close down their instance due to burnout, so maybe it's not exactly a winning one 😅
That's the signal I keep hearing as well
If we get pwned, or otherwise compromised, one cannot tie your username to an email. The same reason the OP doesn't want to provide an email I guess.
I'm not going to enable your victim blaming. Disengage.
Surprisingly, I agree with you. I think jackbooting around with an AR, lefty or not, is generally stupid.
Note, I'm neither American, nor heavily in that scene. I'm merely signal boosting what I feel is important information countering lib propaganda.
'Allo m@tes, for some inexplicable reason we're all still here after yet another year in this fucked up world, so I thought it would be a good time to recap what we've done as it's been a fairly busy year for our growth and maturity.
Soon after our new year celebration, the 2024 canvas happened and we had fun. I blogged a bit about that event here.
Apropos the 2025 Canvas is almost upon us, so start making some plans!
We had to retire our mlmym (i.e. old.reddit) interface as it was abandoned and was running into issues. Interestingly, the lemmy.world crowd seems to have started maintaining it somewhat on their own, so maybe we'll re-add it in the future.
At the same time we've redeployed Tesseract and it's quickly become on my favourite frontends.
Threativore, the core admin tool I've developed to support our instance has grown with leaps and bounds. Through it. we implemented some radical and unique approaches to our instance governance as well as some cool features like user flair, vouching, flagging systems, welcome messages and more.
We've already used the voting system to create mandates on how to handle our instance and it certainly helps the crew know that the direction we sail is a welcomed one. Some examples:
This years we're had multiple large join waves
We're nowhere close to the lemmy.world of course, but last I checked, we're the 5th largest based on Monthly Active Users, and soon to be 4th after lemm.ee shuts down, which I think is impressive for the instance with the a difficult domain to remember, a 2 page application form, and and some spicy takes on politics. 😅
We recently added more countermeasures for the asocial corporate bots swarming the internet, by onboarding Iocaine among other countermeasures. Fun news. The GPTBot is the most greedy, delving 300-page deep in garbage.
We added the rblind themes instance-wide before it was cool 
, and now of course everyone who upgrades to 0.19.12 also has them.
At the same time, we added Korean, Greek and Spanish translations to our application form and golden rules which you can see and improve in our wiki.
We've added 2 new moderators @[email protected] and @[email protected] and one new sysadmin @[email protected] to our instance who have already proved their weight in doubloons! Things are scaling up nicely!
Our real-time matrix channels have been growing busier in later months and it's great to see all you weirdos interact! For the rest of you, what are you waiting for?
I know you've all been waiting for it, so here's another breakdown of our membership alignments as of this date
Analysis Results:
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Historical Pirate: 757 (7.9%)
Digital Pirate: 2095 (21.9%)
Pirate Tools: 1212 (12.7%)
Fictional Character: 831 (8.7%)
FOSS advocate: 2415 (25.2%)
Free Software: 1286 (13.4%)
Anarchist: 1304 (13.6%)
ASD: 227 (2.4%)
ADHD: 509 (5.3%)
Other: 342 (3.6%)
Unparseable: 0 (0.0%)
Total Answers Analyzed: 9572
Answers matching multiple categories: 1744
Top Mentions per Category:
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Historical Pirate: Blackbeard (347), Anne Bonny (55), Zheng Yi Sao (50)
Digital Pirate: Fitgirl (344), Aaron Swartz (291), The Pirate Bay (162)
Pirate Tools: Genp (679), BitTorrent (120), *Arrs (93)
Fictional Character: Captain Jack Sparrow (345), One Piece (120), Dread Pirate Roberts (71)
FOSS advocate: Linus Torvalds (721), Richard Stallman (596), Louis Rossmann (177)
Free Software: Lemmy (420), Linux (211), VLC (73)
Anarchist: Emma Goldman (154), Kropotkin (113), Chomsky (98)
Other: Anonymous (47), Elon Musk (31), O'Reilly (28)
Notable here is GenP shooting up the charts with the migration of their reddit comm, even though we've been explicitly rejecting "GenP" applications for a while, since those lazy bastards just started sharing an application answer to copy-paste even though we asked them not to do that 
M@tes are clearly incredible people which is shown by how well they're taking care of their social third place. Not only have we reach our objective for the first half of 2025, but you've almost completely funded the rest of 2025 itself!
All this ensures there's no stress whatsoever about keeping the lights on. But since we sail in uncharted waters, it's good to have a little bit saved in our treasure hoard 
in case of...complications, so keep it up!
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| Ko-fi | Liberapay |
Finally, I want to extend my warmest thanks to everyone who make this possible, from the staff who put their time and mental health on the line, to the donators who help sustain this endeavor, to all the commenters and voting lurkers, who keep providing the weird content we all thrive on!
On a personal note, I'm not here to build a social media empire, which is why I'm not starting a ton of dbzer0-branded social media services. I feel that putting all my efforts into one very well run instance will go further and will keep the people satisfied. Myself I'm using lemmy constantly as I'm a big believer in "dogfooding", which is why I keep adding new tweaks and features via tools like the threativore and fediseer. Point is: I don't plan to stop so long as you're all staying around to make lemmy interesting to me, so thanks for being part of the same community. I'm proud to call this my home and all of you my m@tes!
That is a misconception! Star Trek is, in fact, a show about the weirdest chairs you've ever seen.
Personal Note: Why oh why can't we have better microblogging interaction and I have to keep making the crossposts manually 🥲
Hey m@tes, a new lemmy version just dropped which adds some really good improvements, so it's time for a quick upgrade. Things I like particularly is finally emailing rejections and displaying rejection reasons in the UI.
Let us know if you experience any issues
Cross-posted from "Liberals right now..." by @[email protected] in [email protected]
Cross-posted from "For Saturday protests" by @[email protected] in [email protected]
Hey m@tes, as y'all know, this instance has been anti-corporate GenAI positive since it's creation and as such we've typically allowed such content to be posted freely. However in the last few weeks we've had a bunch of drama from GenAI haters who insist on coming into our comms and starting slap-fights. This caused us to vote on a new rule to have the mandate to clear out this constant friction. This worked to an extent, but I think we can help foster a better community with the larger threadiverse.
One issue a lot of anti-GenAI people keep bringing is that while they can block dedicated comms like [email protected], they don't have an easy option to avoid GenAI content in random other /0 comms as there's no way to filter it out. This kind of content has been seen to cause a lot of strife, because people complain about its existence, while /0 admins and mods based on the above rule, tend to sanction those complaining. This then causes drama loops with /c/YPTB and /c/FuckAI etc.
There is a good point to be made here that while we don't mind GenAI content in /0, there isn't a reason to not help others avoid it. So we want to institute the following soft rule by now:
Simply tag your posts which consist of primarily GenAI content with the [GenAI] tag in their title. Not only will frontends like Tesseract will natively parse this as a tag and display it accordingly, but people who dislike such content, can simply filter it out of their feeds. Eventually lemmy will add tags which will make this tagging more seamless, but for now a manual tag in the title will suffice.
This rule only applies to posts in non-explicit GenAI comms. The assumption is that people can simply block those comms completely anyway.
As I said, this is a soft rule for now. Soft in the sense that you're not going to be sanctioned for forgetting it, but we hope people will remind you to do so. This is a good-faith attempt by us to co-exist and help others avoid what they don't want to stumble onto, much like [NSFW] tags. So I hope you'll add do a good faith attempt to help us in this. Furthermore, people who come to posts tagged as GenAI explicitly to scold and start slap-fights, will give the admins and easier justification to clean up, since they could have just filtered out that content in the first place.
Cheers
If you don't like the comm you can leave, but we don't tolerate people trying to pick fights in the comments.